Copynotes: | First edition of books I-III.
Signatures: A-Z8, Aa-Pp8, Qq4 (Pp6-7, both cancels and caneled leaves of the complimentary sonnets present in this copy)
Pages 79, 82-83, 86-87, 90-91, 94, 309, 317, 403, 439, 510, 562, 586 incorrectly numbered 81, 84-85, 88-89, 92-93, 96, 319, 217, 40 [character 3 reversed and up-side down], 493, 600, 592, 589, respectively.
Inserted at front is an extraneous port.
Title vignette (printer’s device of John Wolfe, a fleur-de-lis with motto "Ubique floret."); head and tailpieces; initials; caption at head of each canto enclosed in ornamental border.
Reference: Johnson, F.R. A critical bibliography of the works of Edmund Spenser. Baltimore, 1933, p. 11-18; Pollard and Redgrave, 23080 or 23081 (facsimile t.p. makes identification of variant impossible)
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